Burlington, Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc has added the Micro Annex models ELS and XL to its range of Unix communications servers bought from Encore Computer Corp a couple of years back: both can connect eight or 16 serial ports to an Ethernet network. Using Intel Corp’s 80376 processor – an embedded version of the 80386 – the ELS comes with new security features, the XL with network management enhancements. Xylogics is looking to sign up as many as 20 distributors outside the US for its products, and expects existing OEM customers, such as Unisys Corp and NCR Corp, to take the Micro Annex line. Despite Xylogic’s red marks, which total $2.7m so far this year, Alan Law, recently appointed to international vice-president, said I haven’t joined a company that’s going bankrupt. He believes that Unix communications – effectively the third product metamorphosis the company has undergone in its 12 year history will be the foundation of a new Xylogics. The firm will buy in products from OEM sources, do its own, as well as joint development, on future products, Law says.
